The German pre-1945 state served industrial capital despite Junker staffing

Evidence

A version of the same approach, which conceives German society prior to 1945 as peculiarly ‘pre-modern’, has also received a powerful challenge recently from David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, who argue that after 1871 the German state, although still staffed primarily by the agrarian Junker class, operated in the interests of industrial capital. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 188

Categorization

• XREF: The Blackbourn-Eley ‘peculiarities of German history’ revision parallels Callinicos’s own debunking of the Sonderweg thesis — a useful comparison point against the aristocratic-persistence reading. — connects to: Nazi Germany operated less like a state than like a perpetually renegotiating gang — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2750

Broader Connections

• Nazi Germany operated less like a state than like a perpetually renegotiating gang #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2750